Fastening means fob abutting



y 1934- N. H. BuscHMAN FASTENING MEANS FOR ABUTTI NG CARRIER FLAPS Filed 001:. 6, 1932 ATTORNEY Patented July 24, 1934 PATENT OFFICE FASTENING MEANS FOR ABUTTING CARRIER FLAPS Nathan H. Buschman', New York, N. Y., assignor to Charles E. Culpeper, Nor-walk, Conn.

Application October 6, 1932, Serial No. 636,442

. 2 Claims.

This invention relates to improvements in fastening means for abutting carrier flaps and the like.

One of the objects of this invention is to provide improved fastening means between a pair of abutting flaps of containers or carriers composed of paper, cardboard or like flexible material, and which will be formed integrally or unitarily with the flaps to provide relatively inexpensive fastening means, and also fastening means that will fasten and retain the flaps in securely fastened position.

Another object of my invention is to provide fastening means of the type hereinabove specified from material which would be cut out to form hand holes or carryingi iidle for the carrier, carton, or the like.

Still another object of my invention is to provide a fastener of the type hereinabove specified which when in fastened position may be utilized to reinforce the upper portion of the carton and also the upper portion of the carrier or carton.

Still another object of my invention is to provide a device of the type specified having tongues which may be utilized not only to fasten the flaps together, but also may be utilized to space bottles carried by the carrier or carton and projecting through the walls of such carrier or carton.

Still another object of my invention is to provide in a fastening device of the type hereinabove specified, a pair of tongues cut out from the material of the flaps connected thereby and so severed as to provide tongues having connections with their respective flaps offset laterally from each other, said tongues being bendable at a right-angle to the face of the flaps on axes coinciding with the bottom of the tongues and thereafter again bendable or foldable about axes extending transversely through the tongue to 40 permit projection of the folded tongues through the openings in the opposite flaps formed by such folded portions and, after such projection, again unfolded and interlocked with each other and to abut or contact against the connecting portion 45 of the opposing tongue, and preferably to abut at its outer end against the goods carried by the carrier or carton.

With these and other objects in view, the in- 'vention comprises the combination of members and arrangement of parts so combined as to co-act and co-operate with each other in the per- *formance of the functions and the accomplishtnent of the results herein contemplated, and 55 comprises in one of its adaptions the species or preferred form illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which:-

Fig. 1 is a view in side elevation of a bottle-carrier or carton embodying my invention;

Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the carton shown 30 in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a section on the line 33 of Fig. 1 looking in the direction of the arrows;

Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4-4 of Fig. 1 looking in the direction of the arrows;

Fig. 5 is a section on the line 55 of Fig. 1 looking in the direction of the arrows;

Fig. 6 is a view in plan of a strip of paper out to produce the carton and fastening device shown in Figs. 1 to 5.

Referring now to the drawing which illustrates my fastening means applied to a bottle carrier or carton, which, per se, forms no part of my invention, 1 indicates a strip of relatively rigid and creasable material suitable for erection into a bottle carrier or carton for double rows of bottles and preferably is composed of paste-board or reinforced paper. This strip is provided at its middle portion and on its inner surface with parallel creases 2-2 adapted, when 30 the material is bent at right angles along the same, to provide a bottom 3 for the carton, and side-wall sections 5--5', having hinge or foldable connections therewith and bendable at right angles to the bottom section, thus jointly form- 35 ing, what -I shall term, the body of the carton.

The said strip 1 is, in the form illustrated, provided at opposite sides of the bottom creases 2-2 and also on the inner surface, with parallel creases 4-4. These creases are positioned to limit the length of the wall sections 5--5' to a height less than the length of the bottle to be carried and preferably to a height extending to a point below the neck of the bottle, and also to provide a hinged or foldable connection between the walls or body of the carton and neck-engaging members or sections 7-7, bendable again in the same direction and in the form illustrated being bentiin an inclined plane relatively to the wall sections! The widths of the members or sections 7-7, will be determined by parallel creases 6-6 depressed in the opposite or external surface. The neck-engaging members 7--7' each have elliptical longitudinal-extending bottle-insertion apertures 8 through which the top of the bottle is adapted to be projected and the upper and lower edges 8'-8 of which are adapted to abut against opposite sides of the bottle.

Connected or applied to the top of each of the neck engaging sections 7-7 are handle sections or fiaps 99' which are adapted to extend vertically and to abut against each other between the two rows of bottles and in accordance with my invention, these abutting flaps or handle sections are securely fastened together and a hand hold is formed through both of such flaps or handle sections to permit ready gripping and carrying of the carrier.

As illustrated, instead of cutting away the flexible material of the carrier to form hand holes or apertures 9*, which as illustrated are elliptical in conformation, I sever the material of one of the flaps or handle sections to provide a pair of complementary fastening tongues 10l1 preferably of identical configuration and having connecting portions and bendable supplementary tongues offset laterally from each other so as to permit the folding of the complementary tongues upon the bodies thereof and the projection of the same through the apertures in the opposite member formed by such folding and thereafter to permit the unfolding and interlocking of the tongues with each other.

Thus, referring now specifically to Fig. 5, I provide the tongue 10 with a body portion 10 and a laterally extending supplemental tongue 10 which is severed from the handle section at 10 along its base line 10 and adapted to be folded upwardly along an axis or crease 10 extending transversely of the tongue 10, and the tongue 10 in such folded position is adapted to be bent or folded along an axis or base line 10 parallel to or coinciding with the lower edge of the handhold and tongue.

The tongue 11 is similarly provided with a body portion 11 offset laterally from the body portion 10 of the opposite tongue and having a laterally extended supplemental tongue 11 severed at 11 along the base line 11 and foldable over the body portion 11' along the transverse axis 11 When both of such tongues are so folded, it will be obvious that there will be opposite to the body portions of the said tongues in the opposite member of the pair of openings through which the body portions and folded supplemental portions may be bent or folded to cross the path of movement of each other so that the tongue will extend through an opening in another member, and vice versa, whereupon the supplemental tongues may be unfolded downwardly on the opposite sides of the opposing members and thus against the necks of the bottles carried in the carton and if these tongues are properly proportioned in width, they may be utilized to assist in spacing the bottles in the carton from each other.

Having described my invention, I claim:-

1. A carrier embodying, in combination, a pair of abutting flaps provided with a pair of tongues formed unitarily with the said pair of flaps and comprising body portions connected at their bases to the said pair of flaps and being offset laterally from each other and supplemental portions extending laterally from said body portions and severed from the said flaps and each foldable about an axis extending transversely of the tongues to extend along one side of the body portion, each member of said pair of tongues being, when the supplemental portion is folded in relation to the body portion thereof, bendable about its base portion through the opening cleared by the folding of the other tongue to extend through said cleared opening to the opposite side thereof, whereby the unfolding of the supplemental portions will provide an interlocking connection between such opposing supplemental portions and body portions.

2. A bottle-carrier embodying, in combination, a bottle carton for a double row of bottles comprising a single piece of flexible material creased to provide a carrier body, a bottle neck engaging member having a plurality of openings for the extension therethrough of the neck of bottles and abutting vertically-extending handle flaps disposed between the two rows of bottles, said pair of abutting flaps being provided with a pair of tongues formed unitarily with the flaps and comprising body portions connected at their bases to the flaps and being offset laterally from each other and supplemental portions extending laterally from said body portions and severed from the said flaps and foldable about axes extending transversely of the tongues to provide openings registering with the body portion of adjacent tongues, each member of said pair oi tongues being, when the supplemental portion is folded in relation to the body portion thereof, bendable through the opening cleared by the folding of the opposite member, said connections of the body portions with the flaps being located at the bottom of the tongues, whereby the bending of the tongues downwardly through said cleared openings and the unfolding of the supplemental portions will provide an interlocking connection between such opposing supplemental portions and the body portions, said tongues being of such width as to engage, when in interlocked position, the necks of the opposite rows of bottles to assist in spacing the same.

NATHAN H. BUSCHMAN. 

